THIS CACHE IS NOT ACCESSIBLE FROM INTERSTATE 81!
This is the third cache in a series of ten following the journey of Thorin Oakenshield & Co. across Middle-Earth as told in J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 novel, The Hobbit. Each cache contains a part of the coordinates of the series's final cache. Don't forget to write down the clue! For full information and a list of all the caches in the series, follow the following link:
“Long days after they had climbed out of the valley and left the Last Homely House miles behind, they were still going up and up and up. It was a hard path and a dangerous path, a crooked way and a lonely and long. Now they could look over the lands they had left, laid out behind them far below. Far, far away in the West, where things were blue and faint, Bilbo knew there lay his own country of safe and comfortable things, and his little hobbit-hole. He shivered. It was getting bitter cold up here, and the wind came shrill among the rocks. Boulders, too, at times came galloping down the mountain-sides, let loose by midday sun upon the snow, and passed among them (which was lucky), or over their heads (which was alarming). The nights were comfortless and chill, and they did not dare to sing or talk too loud, for the echoes were uncanny, and the silence seemed to dislike being broken – except by the noise of water and the wail of wind and the crack of stone.”
This cache will take the adventurer to the slopes of the Appalachian Mountains just upriver from Harrisburg. On clear days, one can enjoy views of North (Blue) Mountain to the north of the cache and views of Piney Mountain (Reeser's Summit) to the south. Plenty of parking is available adjacent to GZ.